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The Afghan Campaignby Steven PressfieldISBN 038551641X (0-385-51641-X)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Afghan Campaign'Book summary:In words that might have been ripped from todays combat dispatches, Steven Pressfield, the bestselling novelist of ancient warfare, returns with a riveting historical novel that re-creates Alexander the Greats invasion of the Afghan kingdoms in 330 B.C., a campaign that eerily foreshadows the tactics, terrors, and frustrations of contemporary conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Narrated by Matthias, a young infantryman in Alexanders army, The Afghan Campaign explores the challenges, both military and moral, that Alexander and his soldiers face as they embark on a new type of war and are forced to adapt to the methods of a ruthless foe that employs terror and insurgent tactics, conceals itself among the civilian populace, and recruits women and boys as combatants. Matthias joins Alexanders army after it has conquered the Persian empire and is advancing east into Afghanistan on its way to the riches of India. Part of a unit that includes recruits his own age as well as veterans, Matthias chronicles his rapid coming-of-age as a soldier as he enacts Alexanders scorch-and-burn strategies, experiences the joys and sorrows of a romance with an Afghan girl, and faces the barbarism of the Afghans, his fellow soldiers, and ultimately himself. As Matthias relates the brutal day-to-day encounters between the two sides, he exposes the human cost borne by a company of men whose code is humanist and secular when they seek to impose their will on a people of deep religiosity, insularity, unbending pride, and a passionate readiness to die for their cause.
An edge-of-your-seat adventure that brings to life the confrontation between an invading Western army and fierce Eastern warriors determined at all costs to defend their homeland, The Afghan Campaign once again demonstrates Steven Pressfields profound understanding of the hopes and desperation of men in battle and of the historical realities that continue to influence our world. [via] 
Alexander : The Virtues of Warby Steven PressfieldISBN 0385607709 (0-385-60770-9)
Hardcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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Gates of Fireby Steven PressfieldISBN 0385492510 (0-385-49251-0)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gates of Fire'Book summary:Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.
Thus reads an ancient stone at Thermopylae in northern Greece, the site of one of the world's greatest battles for freedom. Here, in 480 B.C., on a narrow mountain pass above the crystalline Aegean, 300 Spartan knights and their allies faced the massive forces of Xerxes, King of Persia. From the start, there was no question but that the Spartans would perish. In Gates of Fire, however, Steven Pressfield makes their courageous defense--and eventual extinction--unbearably suspenseful.
In the tradition of Mary Renault, this historical novel unfolds in flashback. Xeo, the sole Spartan survivor of Thermopylae, has been captured by the Persians, and Xerxes himself presses his young captive to reveal how his tiny cohort kept more than 100,000 Persians at bay for a week. Xeo, however, begins at the beginning, when his childhood home in northern Greece was overrun and he escaped to Sparta. There he is drafted into the elite Spartan guard and rigorously schooled in the art of war--an education brutal enough to destroy half the students, but (oddly enough) not without humor: "The more miserable the conditions, the more convulsing the jokes became, or at least that's how it seems," Xeo recalls. His companions in arms are Alexandros, a gentle boy who turns out to be the most courageous of all, and Rooster, an angry, half-Messenian youth.
Pressfield's descriptions of war are breathtaking in their immediacy. They are also meticulously assembled out of physical detail and crisp, uncluttered metaphor:
The forerank of the enemy collapsed immediately as the first shock hit it; the body-length shields seemed to implode rearward, their anchoring spikes rooted slinging from the earth like tent pins in a gale. The forerank archers were literally bowled off their feet, their wall-like shields caving in upon them like fortress redoubts under the assault of the ram.... The valor of the individual Medes was beyond question, but their light hacking blades were harmless as toys; against the massed wall of Spartan armor, they might as well have been defending themselves with reeds or fennel stalks.
Alas, even this human barrier was bound to collapse, as we knew all along it would. "War is work, not mystery," Xeo laments. But Pressfield's epic seems to make the opposite argument: courage on this scale is not merely inspiring but ultimately mysterious. --Marianne Painter [via]More editions of Gates of Fire:
Gates of Fire : An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylaeby Steven PressfieldISBN 0385600143 (0-385-60014-3)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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Killing Rommelby Steven PressfieldISBN 0385519702 (0-385-51970-2)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Last of the Amazonsby Steven PressfieldISBN 0553382047 (0-553-38204-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Legend of Bagger Vanceby Steven PressfieldISBN 0060959886 (0-06-095988-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Legend of Bagger Vance'Book summary:In the Depression year of 1931, on the golf links at Krewe Island off Savannah's windswept shore, two legends of the game--Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen--meet for a mesmerizing thirty-six-hole showdown. Another golfer will also compete--a troubled local war hero, once a champion, who comes with his mentor and caddie, the mysterious Bagger Vance. It is Vance, sage and charismatic, who will ultimately guide the match, for he holds the secret of the Authentic Swing. And he alone can show his protege the way back to glory.
Written in the spirit of Gold in the Kingdom and The Natural, The Legend of Bagger Vance reveals the true nature of the game in a story that is unforgettable.
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The Penthouse Film Guideby Steven PressfieldISBN 0446690260 (0-446-69026-0)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Tides of War : A Novel of Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian Warby Steven PressfieldISBN 0553381393 (0-553-38139-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tides of War'Book summary:After chronicling the Spartan stand at Thermopylae in his audacious Gates of Fire, Steven Pressfield once again proves that it's all Greek to him. In Tides of War, he tells the tale of Athenian soldier extraordinaire Alcibiades. Despite the vaunted claims for Periclean democracy, he is undoubtedly first among equals--a great warrior and an impressive physical specimen to boot: "The beauty of his person easily won over those previously disposed, and disarmed even those who abhorred his character and conduct." He is also a formidable orator, whose stump speeches are paradoxically heightened by what some might consider an impediment:
Even his lisp worked in Alcibiades' favor. It was a flaw; it made him human. It took the curse off his otherwise godlike self-presentation and made one, despite all misgivings, like the fellow.
This tale of arms and the man requires two narrators. One, Jason, is an aging noble who serves as a sort of recording angel of the Athenian golden age. The other, Polymides, was long Alcibiades' right-hand man, yet is now imprisoned for his murder.As they were in his previous novel, Pressfield's battle scenes are extraordinarily vivid and visceral. This time, however, many of these elemental clashes take place on water. "As far as sight could carry, the sea stood curtained with smoke and paved with warcraft. Immediately left, a battleship had rammed one of the vessels in the wall; all three of her banks were backing water furiously, to extract and ram again, while across the breach screamed storms of stones, darts, and brands of such density that the air appeared solid with steel and flame."
In addition to his gift for rendering patriotic gore, the author excels at quieter but no less deadly forms of combat. As Alcibiades' star rises and falls and rises again, we are escorted directly into the snakepit of Athenian realpolitik. Bathing us in the details of a distant era, Pressfield is largely convincing. But it must be said that his diction exhibits a sometimes comical variegation, sliding from Homeric rhetoric to tough-guy speak to the sort of casual Anglicisms we might expect from Evelyn Waugh's far-from-bright young things. No matter. Tides of War conquers by sheer storytelling prowess, reminding us that war was--and is--a highly addictive version of hell. --Darya Silver [via]
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- Tides of War : A Novel of Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War: ISBN 0385601646 (0-385-60164-6)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited - Tides of War : A Novel of Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War: ISBN 0385492529 (0-385-49252-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing - Tides of War: ISBN 0553381393 (0-553-38139-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
- Tides of War : A Novel of Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War: ISBN 0385601646 (0-385-60164-6)
The Virtues Of Warby Steven PressfieldISBN 0553382055 (0-553-38205-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Virtues Of War'Book summary:Alexander the Great (356323 B.C.) ascended to the throne of Macedon at the age of twenty. He fought his greatest battlesincluding the conquest of the mighty Persian Empirebefore he was twenty-five and died at the age of thirty-three, still undefeated by any enemy. His reputation as a supreme warrior and leader of men is unsurpassed in the annals of history.
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In the brilliantly imagined first-person voice of Alexander the Great, acclaimed novelist Steven Pressfield brings to life his epic battles, his unerring command of his forces, and the passions and ambitions that drove him. A full-blooded, multidimensional portrait, THE VIRTUES OF WAR captures Alexanders complex character. Alexander was a fearless commander who moved with such daring and speed that no army could withstand him; a driven leader whose ambitions knew no limits; and a man with boundless compassion for his troops, deep friendships with his generals, and profound respect for his enemies. Yet in the end, his noble qualities were subsumed by his insatiable lust for glory.
No one writes about battles as brilliantly as Pressfield, and in THE VIRTUES OF WAR he vividly describes the seminal conflicts of Alexanders career, revealing the tactics behind them and capturing the blood, heat, and terror of the battlefield. He follows Alexanders forces as they faced and defeated armies that far outnumbered them; delivers a thrilling frontline report from Gaugamela, the scene of Alexanders greatest victory; and, in a memorable vignette, shows the great conqueror finally halted, not by an enemy but by the refusal of his worn-out troops to march any farther.
Epic in scope and magisterial in tone, THE VIRTUES OF WAR is sure to take its place among the classics of historical fiction.More editions of The Virtues Of War:
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The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battlesby Steven PressfieldISBN 0446691437 (0-446-69143-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles'Book summary:The Art of War meets "The Artist's Way" in this no-nonsense, profoundly inspiring guide to overcoming creative blocks of every kind. [via]
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La Conquista De Alejandro Magnoby Steven Pressfield , Alberto CoscarelliISBN 0307350185 (0-307-35018-5)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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